Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-11

there is an entry of eighteen pence for iouI
hundred colored and pictured Easter eggs,
with which the people spOrted. In Russia,
slaves were fed and aims were distributed
ON Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met at
Pontus, at Gaul, AT Rome, at Achala to de-
eide the particular day, and, after con-
troyersy, more animated than gracious,
decided it, and now through all Chrlsten-
dom. in some way the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens upon or next
after March 2lst, is filled with Easter re-
joicing.
The Royal Court of the Sabbath is made
I'D of fifty-two. Fifty-One are princes in
the royal household, but Easter is queen.
She wears a richer diadem, and sways a
more iewclled sCcpter, and III her smile
nations are irradiated. Unusually well
come this year because Of the harsh winter
and the late spring, she seems to step out
of the snowbank rather than the COnscrva-
tory. come out of the North instead OF the
South. out of the Arctic rather than the
tropics, dismOunting from the icy equinox
hut welcome this quecnly day, holding
high up in her right hand the wrenched-
off bolt of Christ's sepulchre, and holding
high up in her left hand the key to all the
in Christendom.
1t is an exciting thing 10 see
AN ARMY ROUTED AND FLYING.
They run each other down. They scatter
everything valuable in the track. I'm
wheeled artillery; hoOf OF horse on breast
of wounded and dying man. You have
read of the French falling back from Sc.
dan, or NapOleOn's track of ninety thou
sand corpSes in the snow banks of Russia,
or of the retreat OF our own armies from
Manassas, or of tue five kings tumbling
over the rocks of BethOran with their ar.
mics, while the hail storms of heaven and
the swords of JOshua's hosts struck them
with their fury. In my text Is a worse
discontinue. 1t seems that black giant
proposed to conquer the earth. He gath
cred for his host all the aches and pains
and nialadies and cancers and distempeTs
and epidemiCs of the ages. He marched
them down, drilling them in the northeast
wind and amid the slush of tempests. He
threw mp barricadeS of grave-mOund. lie
pitched tent of charnel house. Some Oi
the troops marched with slow tread com
manded by COnsumptiOns, some in double.
quick, commanded by pneumoniaS. Some
he took by long beSicgement of evil habit,
and some by one stroke of the battle axe
of casualty. With bony hand he pounded
at the door oil hospitals and sick rooms,
and Won all the victories in all the great
blttleiieldS of all the five continents
Forward march, the conqueror of con.
querOrs, and all the generals and
cOmmanders-in-chief, and all presi.
dents and kings and sultans and
czarS drop under the feet of his wal
charger. But one Christmas night his an.
tagOnist was born. As most of the plaques
aud sickneSSeS and despotismS come out OI
the East, 1t was appropriate that the new
COnquerer should come ont Of the same
quarter. Power is given Him to awaken
all the fallen of all the centuries and of all
lands, and marshal them against the black
giant. Fields have already been won, hut
the last day of the worlds existence will
see the decisive battle. When Christ shall
lead forth His two brigades, the brigade ol
the risen dead and the brigade of the ce
lestial host, the black giant will fall back,
and the brigade from the riven sCpulChre,
will take Him from beneath and the brig
ade of descending immortals will take him
from above and death shall he swallowed
up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened tEC
conquest and demolition of the planet
HAS LOST HIS THRONE,
has lost his sceptre, has lost his palace, has
lost his prestige, and the one word writer
over all the gates of mausOleum and cata
comb and metropolis, on cenotaph and sar.
cOphagus, on the lonely khan of the Arctic
explorer, and on the CatafSlque of great
cathedral, written in musical cadence
written in doxology of great assemblages
written on the sculptured door of the fam
lily vault, is victory" Coronal word
cmbannered word, apOcalyptic word. chic
word Of the triumphal arch under which
cOnquerOrs return.
Victory Word shouted at Culloder
and Balaklava and Blenheim, at MegiddC
and SOllerino, at Marathon, where the
Athenians drove back the Medes; at Polo,
tiers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis, wher,
Themistocles in the great sea fight con
founded the Persians, and at the door O
the Eastern cavern of chiselled rock, where
Christ came ont through a recess and
throttled the King of Terrors, and put him
back in the niche from which the celestial
conqueror had Just emerged Aha when
the jaws of the Eastern mausoleum took
down the black giant death was swal
lowed up in victory IprOclaim the
ABOLITION OF DEATH.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygiar
ferry and CharOn with ear and boat. Mel.
rose Abbey and kenilwOrth Castle are No
more in ruin than is the sepulchre. We
shall have no more to do with death than
we have with the clOak-room at a Cover.
nor's or Presidents levee. We stop al
such clOak-rOOm and leave in charge of 8
servant our Overcoat, our Overshoes, our
outward apparel, that we may not be i'm
peded in the brilliant round of the draw.
ing Well, my friends, when we gC
ont to this world we are going to King,
banquet, and to a reception of monarchs
and at the door of the tomb we leave the
cloak of flesh and the wrappings with
which We meet the storms OF this world
At the close Of an earthly reception. undel
the brush and broom of the porter the coat
or hat may he handed to us better thar
when We resigned it, and the cloak of bu
manity will finally be returned to us i'm
proved and frightened and purified anG
glOri6ed.
You and do not want our bodies re-
turned as they are now. We want to get
rid Of all their weaknesses and all tbei,
suscepibilities. They will be put through
a chemistry of soil and heat, and cold anG
changing seasons ont of which God will
reconstruct them as much better thar
they are now as the body OF the rosiest anG
healthiest child that bounds over the lawr
at Prospect Park is better than the sickes
patient in Bellevue Hospital. But as t.
our soul, we win cross right over, mo-